Jeremiah 31:33 “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
    after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds
    and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.”

It is interesting that Jewish leaders down through the centuries have seemed to ignore this verse, at least in my awareness. Combined with the next verse, it wipes out the need for rabbinical teachers, and teachers don’t like that! God is the ultimate Teacher, and we must never forget that. Only He can genuinely do what He says here, writing His law on our hearts. We tend to resist that, which is the ultimate stupidity. We can’t sufficiently internalize on our own all that He says and has said to us, so we need to invite and allow Him to do that work in us. As Jesus explained in the Upper Room and just before His ascension, that is the work of the Holy Spirit. If our hearts are open and tender, He will fill us and empower us to be and do all that the Father desires of us. If not, we will struggle to do what we know is right. God is not only the ultimate Teacher, He is also the ultimate Coach, coming alongside us and enabling us to hear and recognize all that He is saying to us. The question remains of whether we will accept and be party to this New Covenant. God doesn’t force Himself on anyone, but He makes Himself available to all who will receive Him, transforming them into His children indeed. (John 1:12-13)

This is something I have both delighted in and struggled with all my life. I delight in God’s grace toward me, and I mourn my moments of unfaithfulness toward Him. That He would walk with me and talk to me so consistently is absolutely incredible, but the fact that I sometimes ignore Him is, if anything, even more incredible. As the chorus to the hymn, Teach Me to Pray, says, “Living in Thee, Lord, and Thou in me; constant abiding, this is my plea.” That won’t be fully complete until I am out of this body and with my Lord, but it is something I look forward to with every fiber of my being.

Father, thank You again for Your incredible grace, that You would relate to Your creation in this way. Help me respond as You deserve, in full love and obedience, so that Your purposes may indeed be accomplished in and through me, for Your glory. Thank You. Hallelujah!